Reading Fluency

The new changes in curriculum are suggesting that there will be fluency tests for students in year 8.Fluency is finally being recognised as the key to unlocking comprehension and allowing students to access the curriculum. It also allows students to practice oracy, using expressions and phrasing to enhance the construction of meaning of the words on the page.

Reading fluency is integral for pupils to be able to comprehend texts. “The most significant barrier to comprehension of written texts is that of reading fluency. Too many students in secondary schools simply cannot decode quickly enough to read effortlessly” Didau 2019. Improving reading fluency became a passion of mine in my previous role of Head of English and seeing students improve their oracy was joyous. I have designed a whole curriculum for reading fluency which is designed to build on the 4 aspects of fluency defined by Rasinksi's rubric.

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The first scheme is based on the short story 'Lark' - it introduces certain aspects of fluency and has a range of reading strategies within it. The picture is an example of the visible instructions and what to expect within the scheme.